Landscape & Plant Options

Xeriscape Plants

Deciduous Trees

Botanical Name: Acer Tataricum

Evergreen Trees

Botanical Name: Abies Concolor

Non-Grass Ground Covers

Organic

  • Bark - comes in different colors and textures
  • Pine Needles - keeps ground moist
  • Low growing plants - those in the evergreen family will give a green look year-round.

Some plant choices for ground cover are:

  • Yarrow - can withstand foot traffic, grows in poor, dry soil, and needs little care once established.
  • Wooly Yarrow - has attractive small silvery plumes and a soothing scent.
  • Alyssum - grow 6 inches, once established reseeds itself, tolerant to dry soil and attractive when in bloom.
  • Thyme - low growing, spreads quickly, colorful - light yellow to deep gray-green. Requires dry, poor soil.
  • Corsican Mint - too tender to walk on, but it does make a very tight mat, about 1 inch high.
  • Silver Mound Wormwood - forms a dense, silvery mount. It can withstand light foot traffic and takes drought well.
  • Sweet Woodruff - a shade loving ground cover with a sweet fragrance, a rapid grower with tiny white flowers.
  • Wood Strawberry - extremely fast growing and develops small fruit. One plant may put out up to 40 runners a year.
  • Speedwell - fond of dry, infertile soils. A good lawn substitute, but does not like traffic.
  • Ivy - year-round coverage.
  • Periwinkle - low growing vine

Inorganic

  • Stone- available in different colors, sizes, and textures.

Plants for Dry Soil Conditions

Perennials

  • Alyssum
  • Baby's Breath
  • Basket of Gold
  • Bearden Tongue
  • Butterfly Flower
  • Campanula Bellflower
  • Coneflower
  • Coreopsis Species
  • Creeping Phlox
  • Daisies
  • Dusty Miller
  • Edelweiss
  • Evening Primrose
  • Fall Asters
  • Fountain Grass
  • Gaillardia Species
  • Globe Thistle
  • Heather
  • Jacob's Ladder
  • Lamium
  • Liatris
  • Lavender
  • Maiden Grass
  • Rock Cress
  • Sedum Species
  • Silver Mound
  • Snow in Summer
  • Yarrow

Shrubs

  • Beauty Bush
  • Flowering Quince
  • Honeysuckle
  • Juniper
  • Scotch Broom
  • Smoke Bush
  • Siberian Pea
  • Potentilla

Trees

  • Green Ash
  • Honey Locust
  • Littleleaf Linden
  • White Pine